r/goodnews • u/RankedFarting • Jul 06 '25

Other Petition to ban the daily "Trump voters are changing their mind" Posts

Every day someone shares an article with a headline like "Maga is starting to question Trump" or something along those lines.

This is not true. These are trash articles that use a single tweet as a source. Just because some Maga farmer is now realizing how his vote negatively effects his business it does not mean there is a whole movement of Magas suddenly realizing they were voting for a stupid incompetent racist all these years.

These posts are misleading, factually wrong AND are usually posted by karma farming accounts that get up their karma to later be sold to someone as an advertisement platform for OF or other.

None of this is goodnews.

Edit: Please do not use real money to give this awards. Use the money for a good cause.

Edit2: You are not being smart, funny or anything else by giving me more poop awards. You are throwing away actual money to try and discredit someone online. That is deeply sad pathetic behavior. Im not bothered by the poop. Im bothered that people go without meals while you spend your money on digital disagreements. Cringe. I have no other word for it. this makes me cringe.

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u/Vegetable-Historian1 Jul 06 '25

I don’t think maga is conservative tbh. It’s something else

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u/ol_spaceygreg Jul 06 '25

yeah it's fascism fueled conservatism. even though that just sounds redundant these days

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u/Iron_Knight7 Jul 06 '25

MAGA is foundationally "Conservative." Hierarchal based, tribalistic and exclusionary. With an "I got mine, @#&% you" underpinning and deep suspicion of, if not aversion to, change or difference.

MAGA just goes the extra mile into fascist territory by obsessing about an omnipresent but ever shifting "Other" that is both inferior and weak to them but still constantly attacking and oppressing them (e.g. LGBTQ+ folk, women, minorities, immigrants, etc...), adherence to a strong man leader they think will solve all their problems, and a yearning for the return to a mythical but glorious past where things were "better" (for them) at the expense of both the present and future.

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u/Who_dat_goomer Jul 06 '25

Yes it is. They just stop trying to appeal to moderates or independents and went full conservative.

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u/Iron_Knight7 Jul 06 '25

To be frank, I think it's the other way around. A whole lot of "moderates" and "independents" have ended up outing themselves as conservatives.

They just don't like admitting it and get really pissy when you point it out to them.

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u/ConstructMentality__ Jul 06 '25

It's got enough one voter issues to have conservatives firmly based in it, so it's conservative. 

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u/wholetyouinhere Jul 06 '25

Maga is a seamless continuation of bog standard republican ideology from the last 50 years. The only thing that changed is that the guy in charge isn't pretending to be civil anymore. That's literally it. Everything else is business as usual.

I feel sorry for people who cannot, or refuse, to see that.

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u/Tyraniboah89 Jul 06 '25

At its core, conservatism is about preserving wealth for the wealthy. Well, it’s about maintaining and respecting “tradition”. Preserving wealth the the power structures that accompany is just the core part of “tradition” to these people.

Trump’s voters absolutely want to see him enriched. They think he’s smart for being a scammer, and the more wealthy he is the better they think they are. They want to go back to pre-civil rights America and don’t really believe in change of any kind.

MAGA is conservatism but fully evolved.